Challenge #87 This card should have been blogged for Saturday but it was after midnight before I realised I hadn't done it.....then I went to bed! Not doing very well at my attempt at blogging every day, am I? lol DH needed another card to take to work last night and this is what I came up with.

I'm also entering this card into another new (for me) challenge......The Pink Elephant Challengeand this week they have a recipe which is Polka Dots, a Bow and Pink. I think you'll agree that my card fits the challenge :)

I did quite well at ploughing through the challenges yesterday.......it has certainly helped me bring my Valentines stock up to date. I'm very late this year as I'm fitting them in with the wedding work. I need to finish them this weekend for definite as I need to get some Mother's Day cards made as I've got none whatsoever in stock!

Promarkers chose Blossom and Pastel Green as the colour scheme for this week. That must be one of my all time favourite colour combinations. I can remember making myself a smock top in needlework at school (well it was the 70s!!) in pink and green and I think I wore it till it fell to pieces lol

Monday, January 25, 2010

....which means two cards!! Only joking, I made a card earlier for the current challenge on 2 Sketches 4 U and while I was at it I thought I may as well do last weeks too, so here goes :) The first card is also for the Colour Create challenge which this time is kraft, blue and white and the optional extra this time is texture (I have used the blue linen effect bp as well as the ribbon)

Last night saw the release of the new challenge on Rosie Dee's Challenge blog where we have been given another one of Rosie's brilliant sketches. We have been sponsored this time by

where there are some fab digi doodles.

I rotated the sketch for my card and used Love in Bloom paper from My Minds Eye, image from Delicious Doodles coloured with Promarkers, Prima flowers, Crate rub on, ribbon and dewdrops are from my stash. Why not take a look at the DT cards and have a go yourself as you stand to win the same set of images we used.

Sunday, January 24, 2010

There will be a few 'give aways' over the coming weeks as I am gutting my craft room (!) and getting rid of anything I haven't used for the last couple of years. So first up is this paper pack and as you can see it is still sealed.

If you would like it leave me a comment below and spread the word about my freebies please. I will leave it up until midnight next Saturday (23rd) and choose the winner on Sunday morning when I will put up the next freebie :)
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Stupid title for a post but what the heck :) I managed to catch up with Kathy's Sketch Files too yesterday so am still please that I've done every single one.....maybe not in the month it was published but I've done them :) So here you go Mrs B, the final one from last year.....

assorted punched flowers, sentiment done on the pc and everything else from stash.

I am also entering this card into the DCM challenge for this week (also set by Kathy) as I've used pointy flowers and the challenge this week isWhat's the Point?

I'd like to see cards featuring points or pointers of some kind - the hands of a clock, arrows, pointing fingers, view-points, pointy stars, pointy ears (hehe), pencil points.... maybe pins and needles could also be incorporated into your

I made a couple of Valentine and a birthday card yesterday and managed to tie in some more challenges. It doesn't sound much does it? I did also knit the front of a baby cardi, made a quiche for tea and some butterfly buns and cleaned my kitchen (sorry for swearing)!!!

Anyway let's talk about something a bit more interesting :) Using the sketch from the Friday Sketchers I made a card without a proper sentiment so it could be used for many occasions.

"So our challenge this week is a colour challenge and it is Pretty Pink Papertake. So pretty straightforward really, you can use other colours as well if you want, and as long as your card is predominantly pink, then that's fine :)"

I made another card for the DDC Challenge MeDon't forget that the colours are lilac and lime and there is plenty of time to join in with out challenge. There is a fab prize on offer too for this one :)

Another card from yesterday evening was made using the Mojo Monday sketch I really like these sketches as they are never fussy or cluttered, neither of which I do very well (which you would find hard to believe if you saw my craft room :)) So, DH is working tonight, he is dj'ing at a 40th birthday party so as usual I needed a quick card for him to give to the 'birthday boy'. Very quick and simple.

I finally managed to get some challenges done last night. I've had quite a bit on again this week with wedding orders, commissions and knitting for the Kids Co I've now got a team of knitters (friends and rellies) so we should be able to get quite a bit done between us. I asked one of the big companies who I get my wool from if they could help us at all (free oddments of wool or cheaper postage and they said no!), still, if you don't ask you don't get. If any of you reding this has any odd balls of wool lying around I would be very grateful of them :) My email addy is on my side bar.

So, onto my first card. When I first looked at this sketch I thought it looked really complicated ..when I came to do the card, it wasn't LOL

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